A Foggy Morning in New York BaySource: The Aldine, Vol. 8, No. 3 (1876), p. 83Published by:Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20637230 .

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THE ALDINE. *z

A FOGGY MORNING IN NEW YORK BAY. ?After Edward Moran. ^

A FOGGY MORNING IN NEW FORK BAY.

In the fine picture with the above title, engraved by Measom, Mr. Edward Moran, who is doing as noble

work in connection with his peculiar class of subjects as Mr. Thomas Moran among the Western mountains, has dealt with a scene familiar to most of us, but none the less acceptable from its homelike quality. A hazy morning, with the brightness and the wind

probably yet to come together during the day, has found a considerable number of craft with very little power to move without the aid of tugs, whatever the

requirement of their business. Most' of the vessels

are enough in the haze to make their build and rig doubtful ; but there is nothing about this schooner, which stands out from the balance of the picture with a fine boldness ? or about this boat with the two

Whitehall watermen, or those other boats boarding or leaving the schooner,

? nothing doubtful or am

biguous. Boats, water, and every detail are full of

life?"still-life," a part of it, certainly, but not the

less interesting or enjoyable from that feature.

PICTURESQUE EUROPE.

The Torre de la Madonna, Lake Como.

Those who fancy, from the high-colored descrip tions of travelers, that the lakes of Northern Italy, and especially Como and Maggiore, are more beauti

ful, in and of themselves, than many other sheets of water of corresponding extent in the world ordinarily

explored, are very" much mistaken, and their mis

take can not be too soon rectified. Both of them

I have the charm of mountains more or less near, to

give finish to landscapes of which they form a part? those of Como very near, as the Alps literally come

down to the edge, and those stretching away north

ward and eastward from Maggiore, including some of

the boldest and grandest of the snow-peak's, with

Monte Rosa crowning all. The fact that needs to be

understood in the matter, is something like that

which exists with reference to the Rhine and the

Hudson, of which the latter is certainly the more

beautiful river, taken as a whole, and especially

reckoning that portion of each which can be con

sidered navigable ? while the castles, ruined and

otherwise, and the other works of human art, along

the banks, give the Rhine an advantage which it will

always hold in the eyes of lovers of the picturesque. So it is with Lake Como, around the shores and on

the high banks of which, the twin powers, Art and

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